3 i6 A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND 
assistance that painting, literature, botany, and chemistry 
are giving to the art, there should be a brilliant future for the 
English garden. What results further developments may 
lead to it would be vain to try and foretell, but it is certain that 
if the modern gardener makes a full use of opportunities, and 
the advantages afforded by art and science, the gardens of the 
twentieth century may far outshine anything that has yet been 
seen in England. 
